This is a story of intrigue, unfolding in the author's best style: a thrilling narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service.

The reader follows with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the "City of Boston", accompanied by a dying man and a special nurse in the person of Katherine Beverley, a society girl who is under obligations to Thew.

The eventful trip across the Atlantic and the attempts of an agent to outwit his enemies in England lead to the climax which will surprise even the inveterate Oppenheim reader.